Young men are shown in the Louisville Male High School gymnasium at 911 S. Brook Street, Louisville, Kentucky. They wear tank tops, shorts, socks. and gym shoes and stand with hands behind their heads. Windows illuminate the room and the gymnastic...

"These highly stylized, non-utilitarian versions of plumbing fixtures evoke complex psycho-sexual concerns surrounding issues of hygiene and male bonding. At the same time, they participate in a witty dialogue with Jasper Johns's famous bronze cast...

Address: 911 S. Brook Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Starting in 1915, this building hosted Louisville Male High School. The multi-story stone building includes four pairs of Corinthian columns supporting a canopy over the front steps and entryway....

Address: 900 S. Brook Street, Louisville, Kentucky. This aerial view shows the neighborhood surrounding Louisville Male High School as well as the school and its stadium in 1922. The homes to the left of Brook Street have since been removed to make...

Boys High School, later Male High School, at the corner of Brook Street and Breckinridge Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Four-story building with front entrance pillars and also a small side porch. There are pediments over the top floor's windows,...

Boys assembled on the bleachers, presumably of the stadium at Louisville Male High School. They all wear shirts with collars and buttons; some wear ties, some wear sweater vests, and a few wear suits. An electric sign ending in "CO" is partially...

"To the right of the photograph [referring to the photograph in Dali's painting The First Days of Spring, 1929] we find the first appearance of an icon soon to proliferate in Dali's work: a waxy-complexioned head with closed eyes, long eyelashes,...

"The dedication reads 'Painted for Paul Éluard by his friend Salvador Dalí'. Éluard, who enjoyed his erotica as much as Dali, must have been impressed by this tour de force." (Caption); "One of his earliest ventures was Board of Demented...

"The painting belonged to Edward James. Surely one of Dali's finest double images." (Caption); "Dali said that The Great Paranoiac had been conceived after a discussion with Josep María Sert about Arcimboldo, and that the protagonist's face is...

"Dali's variation on Paolo Uccello's work of the same title, this is probably his most sacrilegious painting." (Caption); The Profanation of the Host […] is one of Dali's most sacrilegious paintings (although later he tried to exonerate himself by...

"Each of the ceramic plates adorning the table in this installation was individualized. In this photograph, the Georgia O'Keeffe plate on the right owed something of its original design to her Black Iris paintings of the mid-1920s. The plate...

"Here Morris presented a small rectangular structure with a door shaped as a letter 'I'. When opened the door gave on to a photograph of the artist, his phallus rhyming with the "I" connotative both of the viewers looking (eye) and the artist's...

"Whilst Bourgeois's sculptures frequently connote male and female body parts, this piece also has landscape associations. Mounds or mushrooms are evoked, as is a relationship between 'above' and 'below' ground." (Caption, p.151); "The troubled...

Portrait of Kenneth Freer of Louisville, Kentucky, a teacher at Louisville Male High School. He is wearing wire-frame glasses and suit. The photograph has a large crease and a lot of discoloration. Handwritten on back of image: Male High director &...

Tom Johnson, football coach at Male High School in Louisville Kentucky from 1927-1933, stands between two football players wearing practice uniforms. His hands are on either player's shoulder. The photograph has become warped along the top and...

In 1973 I was a beginning graduate student, studying mathematics and classical ballet in California. Reading Judy Chicago's 'Thru the Flower', I first became aware of how male identified and controlled our supposedly 'neutral' museum art was (and...